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Make something up

Chuck Palahniuk

2015318 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Doubleday · 318 pages · ENGISBN 9780385538053
  • 2015Jonathan Cape · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780224099073
  • 2015Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780224099080
  • 2016Vintage · ENGISBN 9780099587682
  • 2016Anchor Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780345807120
  • 2015Doubleday Canada · 336 pagesISBN 9780385681179
  • 2019Debolsillo · 384 pagesISBN 9788466347747
  • Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781101971963

"Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in "Excursion," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precusor story to Fight Club. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk"--

How it feels

Emotional toneIronic
HumourWry

How it reads

CommitmentQuick escape

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
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